There is no point in taking any of this personally, as it tends to be a function of the commercial medium, which is to say TV and its audience.

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It will also help biotechnology companies, such as Ceres, in Malibu, California, which has cloned tens of thousands of genes from a variety of plants and is keen to discover their exact function for future commercial exploitation.

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Continued research should also find even more optimal use of necessary microbes, reduced material costs and improved function of the technology at commercial scales, OSU scientists said.

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These men and their colleagues made up the "Chicago School" (who some say practised the "Commercial Style"), which stressed economy, simplicity and function.

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And in the sub-proposal that we're putting out today, with these two components, it's precisely to get at the function that because there are explicit government supports for commercial banks, they should not be able to use that to turn around and invest for their own profit.

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The internet has been around in commercial form for 10 or 15 years, but it has really yet to be integrated into how businesses function.

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